Research areas

• Biological psychology
• Canon Processes of canonisation
• Christianity Early Christian Apologetics Early Christian asceticism Early Christianity in the pre-Constantine Period Early patristics The martyr literature The Partings of the Way debate
• Classical rhetoric
• Cultural theory
• Culture and cognition
• Evolution
• Feminist philosophy Studies on the conception of gender and sexuality in antiquity
• Gender
• God Contemporary concepts of God
• Historical method and research techniques
• History of mentalities Intellectual history with regard to the study of the ancient world Theorising on the possibilities for conducting intellectual history
• History of research on religion Myth and Ritual School Roy A. Rappaport The History of Religions School
• Jesus The Historical Jesus
• Judaism Apologetics in Early Judaism Diaspora Judaism Judaism of the Late Second Temple Period Qumran - Dead Sea Scrolls
• Lives of other animal and human species past and present
• Multireligiosity Epistemological conditions for modern Christianity
• Myths and rituals Ritual theory
• New Testament The Origin of the New Testament
• Paul The new perspective on Paul
• Phenomenology of religion Charism/charismatic(s) movements Typological definitions of sacred texts
• Psychology of cognition
• Research methods Ancient rhetorics and epistolography Cultural and social anthropology History of research Ritual theory Semiotics of religion
• Rituals Cognitive approaches (Boyer, McCauley/Lawson, etc. Cultural, symbolic approaches (Geertz, Rappaport) Ritual studies
• Rituals
• The Bible